can you get rid of old music files on your itunes without losing it on your ipod when you wanna put more music on it ?

figured someone might know here.

Yes you can.

umm ok

any chance i can get some details, not to be pushy but id love to clear some space on my hard drive.

Ah, alright.

It's pretty simple. Just set your ipod preferences to manual update so that it doesn't synch up to your itunes when you're removing songs. Then, just remove whatever from your itunes library and you should be all set.

That's if you're using itunes, by the way. Not sure how much different it is with other programs.

no i am using itunes, but ive got an 80g video one and i just didnt wanna lose anything ive already got on there.

but i wanted to add more shit, and delete the old files from my hard drive.

are we on the same page here, cause im not trying to lose 11,000 songs just trying to cover my bases first.

i do that, i dont have anything in itunes, i put tem in as needed then delete them

I understand what you're saying, and it should work fine. As long as you have your preferences set to manual update, nothing you add to or take away from your itunes library should effect whats already on your ipod until you actively alter your actual ipod playlist.

I have tons of stuff I deleted from my hard drive but is on my ipod

just make sure you turn off synching and you're golden

thanks for the help folks it all worked out for the best.